DEA Agent Never Gave Up After Losing his Eyesight from a Gunshot Wound in Afghanistan
When DEA Agent Joseph Piersante was shot in the head in Afghanistan in 2011, he lost his eyesight but not his mission to combat drugs.
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Joseph Piersante Becomes First DEA Agent to Receive Secretary of Defense Medal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Agent Joseph Piersante, who was shot and wounded by enemy gun fire while on a counter-terrorism and narcotics mission in Afghanistan in 2011, became the first DEA agent to receive the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom. The The Defense of Freedom Medal is the civilian equivalent…